9:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Doors open at 8:00 a.m. for registration, workshop sign up, coffee

9:10 a.m.

Panel I - The Big Business of Insecurity

Moderator: Avi Lewis – Media personality and acclaimed documentary filmmaker

Dorval Brunelle – Professor of sociology, Université du Québec à Montréal

John Foster – Principal Researcher (Civil Society/Governance) The North-South Institute
Read John Foster's speaking text from Panel 1: The Big Business of Insecurity (PDF)

Maureen Webb – Human rights lawyer and author of Illusions of Security: Global Surveillance and Democracy in the Post-9/11 World

Hassan Yussuff – Secretary-Treasurer of the Canadian Labour Congress

10:45 a.m.

Panel II – Commandeering the Continent: Military Integration, Big Oil and the Environment

Moderator: Avi Lewis

Steven Staples – Director of the Rideau Institute and author of Missle Defence: Round 1

Diana Gibson – Research Director, the Parkland Institute

Rosa Kouri and Ben Powless – Canadian Youth Climate Coalition

Steven Shrybman – International trade and public interest lawyer

1:00 p.m.

Panel III – The Democratic Deficit: Parliament and the SPP

Moderator: Avi Lewis

Peter Julian – NDP MP(Burnaby-New Westminster) and NDP International Trade Critic

Elizabeth May – Leader of the Green Party of Canada

2:15 p.m.

Workshops - Click here for descriptions

4:15 p.m.

Panel IV – The North America We Really Want

Moderator: Judy Rebick – Social justice advocate and founder of rabble.ca

Antonia Juhasz – Policy analyst and author of The Bu$h Agenda: Invading the World One Economy at a Time

Bertha Lujan – Minister of Labour for the Legitimate Government of Mexico

Maude Barlow – National Chairperson of the Council of Canadians

Organize This! Strategies for Challenging the SPP together
9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

10:00 - 11:30 a.m.

Break out sessions on mobilizing for the SPP Leaders' Summit and making the SPP an election issue.

12:00 p.m.

Adjourn

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